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Show HN: A framework 10x better than OpenAI Apps SDK

https://www.fastapps.org

OpenAI's Apps SDK sucks.So we built a better way to build ChatGPT apps, fast.You can tap into 800M weekly active users, and early land-grab is everything.200+ developers are already building with our framework.Start with zero boilerplate and get:- Interactive dashboards with real-time data - Form widgets with validation + submission - Data visualizations with charts & graphs - API...

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OpenAI's Apps SDK – How It Works

TL;DR OpenAI just shipped its Apps SDK — the real infrastructure behind ChatGPT “apps.” Built on top of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it lets anyone create interactive UI widgets that talk directly to the LLM. Think: the App Store moment for AI.CORE ARCHITECTURE Every ChatGPT app has two halves:The MCP server — defines tools and logic.The widget — a web app compiled to JS and rendered...

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Right now FastApps mainly focuses on Python-based backends.

Could you share a bit more on what you mean by “backend-only"? Are you thinking of running logic without any UI part?

Node.js isn’t supported yet, but I’d love to hear your use case!

Right now it's React-first because the Apps SDK UI layer is React-based. But the frontend is bundled automatically, so if OpenAI expands support for other frameworks later, swapping it out would be straightforward.
It’s an actual runtime, not just scaffolding. FastApps runs as an MCP server and it handles widget registration, protocol messages, static assets, and the data flow between backend and frontend.

When you run fastapps create, you get a running service that ChatGPT talks to over MCP, not just a code template. You can extend or deploy it like any other web app.

Show HN: FastApps – zero-boilerplate framework for building ChatGPT apps

https://www.fastapps.org

Building interactive widgets for ChatGPT turned out to be way more complex than I expected. Between the MCP protocol, widget registration, build setup, CSP policies, and resource serving — I kept writing the same boilerplate over and over just to get something basic working.That’s why I built FastApps, an open-source framework that lets you build ChatGPT apps with only two files: a Python...

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Show HN: An open-source framework for building "Apps in ChatGPT"

https://github.com/DooiLabs/Chat.js

Hi! I’ve been experimenting with OpenAI's new apps SDK and found it, rough. The example project is unstructured, full of hardcoded file hashes, and takes hundreds of lines just to get something working.So I built Chat.js — an open-source framework that makes building ChatGPT apps actually pleasant.10-line apps instead of 300+ — just define a component’s name, title, schema, and handler....

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